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Random thought.... May be completely off base. |
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Could this debug info be NFS shared? assuming like computers, or would |
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it be different on each computer. |
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On 11/27/05, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you |
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> > think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) |
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> This should definitely be enabled by default, we dont need to enable |
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> debugging information for this to be useful, just having the symbol |
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> table available will make getting backtraces and diagnosing problems |
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> many times easier with little extra diskspace requirements. Gentoo is |
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> way behind on this feature, all the other major distributions have |
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> caught on to how useful detatched debugging symbols can be. |
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> If we dont enable this by default, I think the users who really need it |
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> (ie, the ones who want us to track down a bug but are unable to provide |
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> enough debugging information to do so) probably wont have the foresight |
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> to turn it on. |
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> This could also be a major boon for administrators imho, if a service |
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> is dumping core unpredicatbly this feature and enabling coredumps would |
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> be enough to start tracking down the problem, or at least identifying |
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> the culprit. |
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> taviso@××××××××××××.org | finger me for my pgp key. |
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